LIST OF LANDS & BUILDINGS IN THE OCCUPATION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT ON 1 JUNE 1918
Source: War Office; Lands & Buildings Reconstruction Committee; ‘List of Lands & Buildings in the occupation of the War Department’; 1 June 1918; Northern Command
ALNWICK
ACCOMMODATION OF TROOPS
Alnbank
Barracks *
13, Bondgate Without
Bow Alley
Castle Pastures (Hutment Camp)
Clayport, Grey’s Inn
Fountain House, Bondgate Within
Green Batt House
Narrowgate (House & Shop)
Red House (2 rooms)
St Andrew’s Mission Hall
St James’s P. M. Hall
Seabank
AERODROMES:
Snipe House (Landing Ground)
HOSPITALS:
Hope Villa
OFFICES:
44 Bondgate Within
RIFLE RANGES:
Location not specified
STORES:
Northern & Star Garage
Theatre Basements
ALNWICK DISTRICT
ACCOMMODATION OF TROOPS
Acklington: 5 Barties Town
Field, House, Cottage
Alnmouth: Parish Room & Southern Room
Prudhoe Villa
Seabank
Amble: Council House
Dilston Terrace
12, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21 & 23, Scott Street
Station Hotel (Assembly Rooms)
Broomhill: Central Hall
Grey Arms Hotel
Wesleyan Church Hall
Chevington: Parish Hall
Embleton: Creighton Memorial Hall
Dunstonborough Castle Hotel
Front Street (Cottage) (Baths)
Parish Hall
Warkworth: Fairfield (Coachman’s Cottage, & more)
AERODROMES:
Acklington: Landing Ground
Rennington: Landing Ground
HOSPITALS:
Amble: Isolation Hospital
OFFICES:
Amble: Central Hall, Dilston Terrace
The Fox & Hounds Inn
STORES:
Alnmouth: Hall, Stable & Garage
Narrowgate (Factory & Stable)
Schooner Hotel
Throxton (Basement)
Amble: Explosives Magazine Co. Ltd
Welwood Arms
Embleton: Dunstonborough Castle Hotel
VARIOUS (OTHER USES):
Broomhill: Co-operative Society’s Joiners’ Shop (Bicycle Repair Shop)
ELSEWHERE IN NORTHUMBERLAND
The list of lands & buildings elsewhere in Northumberland in the occupation of the War Department on 1 June 1918 is too numerous to list here, however there follows a summary of the uses to which they were put together with a list of places referred to in the War Office document
USES:
· Accommodation of troops
· Accommodation of Prisoners of War
· Accommodation of Women Workers
· Accommodation of Horses
· Aerodromes
· Defences
· Hospitals
· Mechanical Transport
· Offices
· Rifle Ranges
· Stores
· Training Grounds
· Various (other uses)
PLACES:
Ashington (Aerodrome)
Backworth (Accommodation of troops; Hospitals; Offices; & Training Grounds)
Bamburgh (Accommodation of troops)
Beal (Accommodation of troops; Mechanical Transport; & Stores)
Bebside (Accommodation of troops; & Stores)
Belford (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Horses; Rifle Range; & Stores)
Benton (Accommodation of troops; Aerodrome; & Training Grounds)
Blyth (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Horses; Defences; Hospitals; Offices; Stores; Training Grounds; & Various other uses)
Chirton (Accommodation of troops)
Clousden Hill (Accommodation of troops)
Corbridge (Accommodation of Horses)
Cornhill (Accommodation of troops)
Chathill (Accommodation of troops)
Cramlington (Accommodation of troops; Aerodrome; & Offices)
Creswell (Accommodation of troops)
Cullercoats (Accommodation of troops)
Dukesfield (Accommodation of Horses)
Earsdon (Accommodation of troops; Stores; & Training Grounds)
Elford (Aerodrome)
Forest Hall (Accommodation of troops; & Various other uses)
Gosforth (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Horses; Mechanical Transport; Stores; Training Grounds; & Various other uses)
Goswick (Stores)
Hartley (Defences; Rifle Range; & Various other uses)
Hexham (Accommodation of Prisoners of War; & Rifle Range)
Kenton (Training Grounds)
Killingworth (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Horses; & Hospitals)
Linnington (Accommodation of troops)
Longhorsley (Aerodrome)
Monkseaton (Accommodation of troops; & Offices)
Morpeth (Accommodation of troops; Mechanical Transport; & Various other uses)
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea (Accommodation of troops; & Stores)
Newburn (Inspection Bond)
Newcastle (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Women Workers; Accommodation of Horses; Aerodrome; Hospitals; Mechanical Transport; Offices; & Various other uses)
New Haggerston (Aerodrome)
New Hartley (Accommodation of troops; & Offices)
North Shields (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Horses; Defences; Hospitals; Mechanical Transport; Offices; & Training Grounds)
Northumberland Golf Club (Training Grounds)
Old Hartley (Accommodation of troops)
Palmerville (Accommodation of troops)
Percy Main (Accommodation of troops)
Ponteland (Accommodation of troops; Aerodrome; & Rifle Range)
Redesdale (Accommodation of troops; & Artillery Range*)
Scremerston (Accommodation of troops)
Seahouses (Accommodation of troops)
Seaton Delaval (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Horses; Hospitals; Stores; Training Grounds; & Magazine)
Seaton Sluice (Accommodation of troops)
Spanish Battery (Accommodation of troops)
Tynemouth (Accommodation of troops; Aerodrome; Defences; Hospitals; Offices; Training Grounds; & Various other uses)
Wallsend (Accommodation of troops; Accommodation of Horses; Hospitals; Offices; Training Grounds; & Various other uses)
West Moor (Accommodation of troops)
Whitburn (Accommodation of troops; & Hospitals)
Whitley Bay (Accommodation of troops; Offices; Stores; Training Grounds; & Various other uses)
Widdrington (Offices; & Telephone Exchange)
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* Properties either owned by or leased by the War Department prior to the commencement of the war